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- Title
Weird Allies? Kierkegaard and Object-Oriented Ontology.
- Authors
Wilde, Niels
- Abstract
This paper examines the connection between Kierkegaard's philosophy of existence and Graham Harman's object-oriented ontology. The claim is that Harman's position provides a conceptual apparatus that can beneficially address some basic ontological points in Kierkegaard about actuality, the self and the reality of individual subsisting mind-independent entities. On the other hand, Kierkegaard's emphasis on the human self as a place situated in existence can provide a supplement to Harman's realism which implicitly relies on topological notions. If we define an entity, in a broad sense of the term, as something in its own right irreducible to its being-in-a-relation, but we do not want to end up in a frozen universe of isolated monads, we must revisit the notion of relationality in terms of vicarious causation (Harman) or indirect communication (Kierkegaard).
- Subjects
ONTOLOGY; REALISM; PHILOSOPHY; SELF
- Publication
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 2019, Vol 24, Issue 1, p393
- ISSN
1430-5372
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/kierke-2019-0016